Waxed Canvas & Leather Backpack

The final waxed canvas backpack

He is so excited which is nice--

 sometimes he says he'd like us to make something and then he loses interest....

This will be the ultimate durability test of one of our goods.  If it can survive him and kindergarten it can survive anything!

I did a separate post about waxing it here

It seems to be setting up better now that it's been sitting a little longer....

The buckle and leather logo strap keeper are hand stitched.  The rest of it was sewn on my Sailrite machine....

The legs of the mechanic's suit we used had these little tabs with buttons to tighten the leg up around their boot....

I decided to use them instead of adding a drawstring or other closure at the top of the pack.  These make it smaller at the top so it all fits under the flap a little better.

Our first go at the copper rivets...LOVE these.  They just have a really cool look....

 They go through a hole in the leather and have a washer that gets hammered down flush with the leather....

The posts get cut off....

 And the silver setter has a second domed shape to hammer the raw/ cut edge down smoother to hold the washer in place.....

My machine does a great job sewing through some pretty heavy layers.  It's made to sew sails for boats and will go through up to 8 layers of heavy canvas or something crazy like that....

The straps are adjustable with some button studs so we can let it out a bit for the winter coats....

And because it's Doodle's we used our original wood flying "V" stamp on the patch holding the straps on....

I still can't believe he's going to school...part of me is so sad to see him go and part of me is so happy to see him start a new adventure.